From left, January Jones, Kerry Washington and Sofia Vergara arrive at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on September 22, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

As Hollywood red carpets go, the Emmys are never as much a fashion parade as the Oscars, and Sunday’s show continued that trend. If you just wanted to ogle your favorite TV star, the show offered that.

Actresses tended to go one of two ways — pale and elegant, or bold and beautiful.

Even when the went light in color, actresses made sure their gowns were rich and textured. Julie Bowen’s Zac Posen dress had all kinds of action, from the bows on the shoulders to the sculpted bodice and body to the tiered petal-like show at the bottom. “I’m not a girly-girl,” she said, but her frothy confection said the opposite.

Christina Ricci arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, May 7, 2012 in New York.

In a city that hosts thousands of fashion shows each year, there’s no bigger — or perhaps more treacherous — runway than the red carpeted staircase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The museum’s annual Costume Institute gala draws the top tier of the fashion design world as well as a full assortment of A-list celebrities. And they all climb the stairs, sometimes with difficulty, given the confinement or complexity of their outfits. For the first time, the arrivals were live-streamed Monday in a collaboration between the museum, Amazon and Vogue magazine, so viewers got to see what guests were wearing and hear from the designers who created the looks. I tuned in along with thousands of others.